Water-separator.



PATENTED MAR. 5, 1901. H. G. MILLER. WATER SEPARATOR.

APPLICATION PIL BD FEB. 27, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY G. MILLER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO LOEW SUPPLY &MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WATER-SEPARATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY G. MILLER, a

' citizen of the United States, and a resident smaller diameter than thecasin of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in VVater-Separators, of which thefollowing is a specification, the principle of the invention beingherein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applyingthat principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detailone mechanical form embodying the invention, such detail constructionbeing but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of theinvention may be used.

In said annexed drawings, Figure I represents an axial section of myimproved waterseparator, and Fig. II a horizontal section on the line IIII in Fig. I.

The separator has a cylindrical casing 1, the upper end of which isclosed by a removable cover 2. A cylindrical reservoir 3 of is securedto the bottom of the casing and as an outlet-opening 4 in its lower end,which may be suitably connected to a waste-trap, so that the reservoirmay be emptied whenever it becomes filled with condense water. Agageglass 5 is provided at the side of the reservoir to permit of visualinspection of the waterlevel in the reservoir. A steam-inlet 6' isformed in one side of the casing near the top of the same, and asteam-outlet 7 is formed in the casing diametrically opposite to theinlet. The inlet is continued within the casing by a downwardly-curvedsteam-inlet pipe 8, which extends some distance below the inlet. Aninclined and perforated baffie-plate 9 extends from the wall of thecasing beneath the open lower end of the curved inlet-pipe, incliningtoward the axis of the casing. Two similar inclined baflieplates 10 and11 extend from the opposite side of the casin one above the other andboth above the rst-mentioned baffle-plate.

In practice the water-separator is coupled into the steam-supply pipebetween the boiler and the engine. As steam enters at the inlet-it isdeflected toward the bottom of the casing, and any water carried overwith the'steam will be intercepted by the baffleplate 9 and pass down'the face of the same and fall into the reservoir. Ascending steam willbe intercepted by the twoopposed baffle-plates, which will deprive suchsteam of any remaining water, permitting the steam to ascend through theperforations and pass out through the outlet. The water collecting inthe reservoir may be drawn off by a suitable waste-trap .or in any othersuitable or desired manner.

By the employment of this separator any water carried over with thesteam from the boiler caused by priming of the latter or by any othercause will be intercepted and directed to the reservoir by theperforated baflie-plates, while the dry steam will pass through theperforations in the plates and out through the outlet. The constructionand operation of the separator is simple and inexpensive, and itsfunction is prompt and thorough, insurin perfectly dry steam for theengine regard ess of how wet and saturated with free water the steam maybe when it leaves the boiler and enters the separator.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employedfor the mode herein explained. Change may therefore be made as regardsthe mechanism thus disclosed, provided the principles of constructionset forth respectively in the following claim is employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention-In a water-separator, the combination with a casing having a reservoirat its bottom with a water-outlet and having a downwardly-extendingsteam-inlet in one side near its closed top and a diametrically-opposedsteam-outlet, of a perforated baffleplate arranged beneath the inlet andinclined toward the bottom of the casing and an opposed perforatedbaflie-plate above the latter plate and beneath the outlet and inclinedtoward the top of the casing.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing to be my invention I havehereunto set my hand this 2d day of December, A. D. 1904.

HENRY G. MILLER. V

